Chapter 6
Tears poured out of Angel's eyes and ran down her face, landing on her knees and soaking into her blue jeans. She sat with her knees pushed against her chest crying. She could not believe what she had done. She'd tortured her friends, the ones that had saved her when she'd been kidnapped, the ones who comforted her when she was scared, the ones that had been with her all her life.
But she knew that she had no other choice. The other option involved torture that she wouldn't have been able to imagine, except for the fact that the evil kid who made her do it sent her a memory of watching it done. Half of the flock wouldn't exist if she'd refused to comply with the kid's demand. She couldn't believe, though, that a thirteen year old would make her do this. She didn't think that a kid that young would be able to make someone do that. But she didn't know his motives, because he seemed to be much more experienced with his mental abilities, making him better at blocking her out of his mind. She couldn't block him out, though. She'd learned of her mind controlling ability and her talking to fish and breathing underwater abilities on accident, through experience. It seemed that he was trained to use his powers. He was definitely more powerful than she was. He could use his mind-blocking abilities on other people, not just himself.
"What will happen to the flock if we escape? He'll be able to predict what we're going to do," she thought.
"Yes I will," echoed his voice in her head.
Fang's eyes flickered open. The first thing he felt was pain. Pain in his head, stomach, and back. He didn't move; he'd experienced the pain to move after a fight too many times. But he had to see if Nudge was alright. He turned his head, sending knives of pain through his head, and looked at Nudge. Both of her eyes were swollen and there were bruises all over the rest of her face. He felt guilt flood him. "I couldn't stop it, it wasn't my choice. Angel was using mind control on me," he thought. Then he felt his stomach get stirred up with that feeling of responsibility again. He'd let Angel be turned into a monster. Then he felt curiosity join his other emotions. Who was that kid? Why was he there? Why didn't he say anything?
As he was pondering all of those thoughts, trying to ignore the pain, but not succeeding, he heard Total pipe up for the first time since they got there, "Are you okay?"
Fang didn't turn his head as he replied, "Just fine. I only got punched twice by Nudge and then banged my head on the wall so hard that it knocked me unconscious. But during that time I kicked Nudge in the back and face, and punched her in the face."
"What!? Why did you do that?" exclaimed Total.
"Why don't you ask Angel?" said Fang.
"WHAT!" yelled Total. "How could you say something like that about Angel?"
"Settle down!" yelled Fang. "I'm only telling you what happened!"
"Quiet down!" moaned Nudge. "You're making my headache worse."
"Sorry," said Fang, glad that she was awake. She turned her head toward him and he saw a lot of pain in her eyes, both physical and emotional. "It's okay, Nudge." Then she broke down crying. He wished that he could've put his arm around her shoulders, but he couldn't. He felt bad for her, she'd been through a lot already, and she was only twelve. He couldn't believe that the Director of Itex could be so cruel. Then a disturbing thought ran through his head.
What if they made Angel do that for a reason other than to torture the flock? What if they planned on using her ability sometime later? What if they used it in another plan to destroy the world?